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I've been watching a lot of Richard Gene "the fishing machine" videos on youtube and i noticed that he catches and uses shad and not store bought minnows when he fishes with live bait.
Does anybody know the reason for this? Is it just cheaper or do crappie prefer the Shad over store bought Tuffy or Shiners?
My guess is it's cheaper as much as he fishes.
Probably cheaper but Shad are hard to keep alive over a long time. I generally buy toughies by the 1/2 lb or 1lb depending on how much fishing I plan to do over a week or so and keep them alive by keeping air going on them and putting ammonia remover in the water every few days along with some fresh water.
Probably the lack of places to buy minnows would be my guess
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I think the fishing machine just likes to catch fish. No matter what type.....it’s goooooodddd fer ya!! I also believe that a wild shad might get you a couple more bites since that’s what they are eating naturally on a daily basis. But Then again I don’t like eating the same thing every day but I’m not a fish.
I would think you could catch the same fish with a jig or minnow or spoon. Crappie aren't picky most of the time. Maybe 3 or 4 times a year do I have to find out what they want. I fish a couple of different jigs most of the time and catch them as good as most people.
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He fishes with store bought minnows too, unless I'm having a lapse in memory. Seems I remember him using them in the past. I think the reason his latest videos are done with fresh caught live bait are because this time of year the baitfish are in huge schools are very easy to catch. I have thought about getting a cast net for that same reason. And also the same reason Glenn mentioned. There's just not a whole lot of places to buy GOOD minnows around here. There are only 3 stores that I will buy minnows from in the Guntersville area. Three stores sounds sufficient except it's 20-30 minutes out of the way depending on where I'm fishing. I don't know where RG lives but I know he lives in Dekalb county so his choices are more limited by distance than mine are.
Any of you who fish the Town Creek area, you won't beat the quality of the minnows at Ms Perrys store just north of Town Creek. She only keeps them in the cool months though.
You also have to think he's doing something different to draw people to watch his videos. If he did the same thing every week people would quit watching
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who does have the best minners around gville?? ....GTO? i stopped by pier 69 last week and got 3 dozen (they only sell by the dozen) and when i got to the water it was more like 2 dozen. don't usually get minners there but thats where we stopped to get gas
I know a few folks who prefer to use shad because that's what the crappie are eating naturally and they usually catch larger crappie than most folks ….it is hard to keep then alive though.
GTO has very good quality minnows. I don't know that the minners are better quality but they're kept in better conditions and they have them all year. There's no telling what their water filtration system and chiller cost.
Alder Springs grocery in Alder Springs has good minnows but only keeps them in the cool months as does Perry's store on 227. Ms Perry is a nice old lady and I like to buy from her because she's not doing a whole lot of business anyway, but she babies those minnows. All 3 of those places sell by the 1/4, 1/2 or pound. They also sell them by the dozen if you want to buy them that way.
The store at South Sauty keeps minnows most of the year and they're pretty good quality too, but you never know if they've got toughies or 3" shiners that they think are toughies.
The foreigner owned gas stations around Guntersville have minnows, one at 79 and 431 intersection and one on 69 on the west side of the causeway. Their quality is terrible. They use so much blue stuff in the water to make up for not changing it often that it's hard to see the minnows in the bucket. Even in cool weather they won't live all day with a bubbler running.
I will drive out of my way to get minnows at Guntersville Tackle Outdoors. They have the best I have been able to find and are very reasonable on their prices. I will be hitting them on 11/3 when I get to AL to stock up on minnows for the week of fishing I will be doing.
He’s dipping them himself and that is why he’s using shad (they are free). I personally use crappie shiners from busters in Huntsville. They stay alive in the garage in our cooler setup so we always have them and they live forever on the hook.Quote:
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I always forget Buster's exists. But what is a "crappie shiner?"
It’s just a species of shiner minnow I think it’s the size because they tend to be a bit bigger than the normal toughies and they live longer.
Ahh another northerner coming down here lol. I lived in Michigan for 16 years. Grew up in Huntsville and fished Scottsboro before moving away. Just retired partially from the city of Detroit and moved home a few months ago. Glad to be back on home waters.